obligable
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obligable (comparative more obligable, superlative most obligable)
- Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy.
- 1860, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Essay Considerations by the Way.”, in The Conduct of Life, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
- The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, — is obligable; and another is not.
- (philosophy) Such that a person is obliged to do it; mandatory.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “obligable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)